Admiral Sinet

Admiral Sinet was a French admiral during the reign of King Francis II of France. In 1560, he informed Mary, Queen of Scots about the mobilization of the 1,000 Scottish Protestant rebels against the Catholic nobility, beheading lords and ladies and leaving their bodies behind as a warning. He also informed Mary that James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray had been forging Catholic and Protestant alliances in a bid to keep Scotland together.